Supporting Children and Families: Early Support Offer
What is Early Support?
Early Support is the support offered by the council to potentially vulnerable children, young people and their families.
The purpose of Early Support is to put in the right support at the right time so that problems are less likely to escalate to a point where the child becomes vulnerable or in need. Early Support is sustainable so that problems are less likely to re- occur.
Early Support does not always mean early years. While research does show that most impact can be made in those crucial first few years of a child’s life, Early Support can be needed and put in place at any time and at any age.
Early Support means offering information, advice, guidance, and support to families as soon as a concern emerges, or seems likely to emerge.
The diagram below shows the spectrum of support available through Warwickshire:
At Studley High School we recognise the challenges that families face in bringing up Students. There may be times when you need extra help and support. If this is the case, please come and talk to us. There are many ways in which we can help as outlined in this offer of early support. We can also help to plan specific support for families in the form of an Early Support Assessment where we can work together to set and achieve outcomes.
What can Early Support look like?
| Early Support Intervention | Summary |
|---|---|
| Learning Support Assistants | Our LSAs are assigned to our most vulnerable learners that need additional adult support to reduce their barriers to learning. |
| Form Tutor | Our tutors work closely with each of their tutees to ensure they have a positive day wherever possible and provide the first port of call for support for both students and families. |
| Head of Year | Our Heads of Year provide the next layer of support and monitor everything from attendance to progress as well as liaising with families and other agencies to ensure students are happy, safe and productive in school. |
| Pastoral Manager | Our Pastoral Managers have specialist training in supporting the mental health and well- being of our students. They offer individual and group support and liaise with relevant external agencies to support a student should that be required.
Pastoral Managers also have oversight for their respective year groups in terms of behaviour and Safeguarding. |
| Student and Family Support Worker | The Pastoral team work with students and families to support their needs whilst also signposting them to relevant agencies. With families’ consent, we can refer families for further family support. |
| Attendance Officer | Our attendance team, Mrs M Dudley (Assistant Headteacher) and Mrs M Parsonage, ensures that robust and rigorous attendance systems are implemented each day and understands how they link seamlessly with safeguarding. |
| Deputy Headteacher (DSL/ Pastoral) | The DSL ensures rigorous and robust systems are in place within the school to ensure the safety of all our children. |
| NHS Mental Health Practitioner EMHST. | This programme sees us liaise with the NHS to provide an in- school system for those who need low level mental health support. Tel: 0300 200 2021 https:/ / cwrise.com/ mhst |
| Lifespace
Young Minds Matter |
External mentors, come into school to work alongside those students who need another avenue for support for a range of different reasons. |
| Student Support Centre | Our Student support co- ordinator, Mrs D Warman, works with those students who have a barrier to learning that may place them at risk of exclusion. |
| Careers Hub and Guidance | Our careers strategy ensures CEIAG features throughout the curriculum and bespoke advice is offered through our internal careers service. Our careers lead is Mrs R Dixon. |
| School Nurse | HCRG Care Group are our school nurse team who are available through request. Please contact the Pastoral team. |
| Enrichment and Extracurricular offer. | Our extensive offer of enrichment features throughout and after the school day where students can explore around 15 clubs per evening. |
| SENDCo | Mrs L Monfardini (SENDCo) works with children and families with additional needs and can signpost parents/ carers to different agencies depending on the student or parent/ carer needs. [email protected] |
| Mental Health First Aiders | MHFA are trained to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues and the knowledge to help students recover their health by guiding them to further support. |
| Warwickshire Educational Psychology Service - South Team | This service allows us to gain a deeper insight into why certain behaviours or barriers might exist allowing us to access further support. |
| Safer School Partnership PCSO (Police) | We regularly liaise with the community police officer around how we can support them in their work and ensure our students are safe in the community. Our liaison PCSO is:
PCSO 2: Sanjay Singh. His email is [email protected] |
| Different organisations/websites that target specific safeguarding issues | Please see our ‘Practical Safeguarding advice’ tab which has lots of useful links. Your child’s Pastoral Manager can also signpost you to the most appropriate support. |
What do I do in an emergency?
If you think a child is in immediate danger, please contact 999.
Warwickshire:
If you have an urgent child protection concern and need to get in touch, call Family Connect on 01926 414144. Lines are open: Monday to Thursday: 8.30am – 5:30pm / Friday: 8.30am – 5:00pm
Out of hours
If you need to get in touch outside of the usual office hours, please contact the Emergency Duty Team immediately on 01926 886922.
Worcestershire:
If you have an urgent child protection concern, contact the Worcestershire Family Front Door on 01905 822666 (Mon-Thu 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-4:30pm).
Out of hours
If you need to get in touch outside of the usual office hours, please contact the Emergency Duty Team immediately on 01905 768020.
